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[virtupets]

Things have gotten busy for Sloth the second he was returned to his normal age. Busy with what, most of Neopia is already aware of, what with the sudden, violent retaking of the Space Station they stole from him roughly eight years ago

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[h_hollister]

"Yello?"

She's simply answered her PINpoint bleep with a distracted finger, head down over some paperwork at her desk in the back of her pub. She can chat and work at the same time, because she's dedicated like that. Who's calling is not checked, nor is the vid-screen glanced at. She's too busy with receipts.

[virtupets]

"Hippolytaaaaa!" It's a drawn-out, delighted-sounding greeting. He can see her just fine on his own screen, and he pulls up a seat in front of the terminal he's hijacked.

"I was in the middle of something as well, so I'll not be keeping you too long. But I thought I'd call you up and hear some of the fun details regarding my recent time spent with you! I've got two weeks of static as far as my memory goes, so please! Fill me in!"

He likes that he caught her when she's obviously in the midst of some kind of work.

[h_hollister]

...Oh, good.

She closes her eyes for just a second. But she is smiling a little bit, so that's a good sign. She puts her pen down, opens her eyes, and glances over at her PIN.

"Frankie, sweetie darling," she drawls, sounding a bit like Edina from AbFab. "Glad to see you're back to your charming old self again."

Hahahah an old dig, burn.

[virtupets]

"I'm not old, I'm aged. Like vintage wine." He leans back in his chair, crossing one leg over the other, folding his hands in his lap. In the background, one can hear more shouts and the sound of thundering feet, like a whole crew of someones just stampeded down the hallway. Sloth pays it no mind.

"I'm back, though I'd not say I'm better than ever. I mean, it's hard to get beyond the perfection I've already achieved. So anyways, I was told by a reliable source that I was cute as a wee sprog! Confirm, deny?"

[h_hollister]

"What the smeg is going on over there?" she asks, laughing, peering into the PINpoint as if trying to see what's going on behind him. "Frank, did you piss off the Space Faerie?"

This...might actually be the case.

[virtupets]

"How the hell do you know about the Space Faerie? Oh wait, you probably met her at some point in the past week or so, right? Or did she spirit me away from my crib in the dead of night like some kind of...baby spirit-awayer.

"No, I've not actively gone out of my way to piss off anyone. I'm just doing something I've put aside for a couple years. You know when people take things of yours and you wait and wait to get it back, but finally you get fed up and just march on over and take what's yours back?"

His screen wrinkles and there's a good deal of shuddering when a massive BOOM goes off on his end of things. He again doesn't seem phased by it.

"Something like that's going on is all," he concludes once his screen is steady again.

[h_hollister]

"...Holy shit, you're taking back your space station, aren't you?"

She sounds weirdly enthusiastic about that. Almost like she's quietly egging him on. This has the potential to get bizarre.

"But, yeah, I met the Space Faerie. She was the one who came and took you back to Neopia. She's cute. And sparkly. And anyway. Seriously, are you really taking back your space station?"

[virtupets]

"What'd you do once she showed up? Did you fight her? Oh man, catfights are hot. Although that's not likely since she'd probably just use some sort of telepathic hokey-pokey to cheat. Pfft..."

He turns and glancees back towards the door behind him, as if going 'oh THAT?' at Hips' apparent curiosity of his going-ons.

"Maaaaaaybe...Why, what would you do if I was? What could you do? A lot of nothing, that's what. Hah. Take that." He points at her over their video link as he taunts her. Because he has no idea she'd be happy to hear he's doing such a thing as taking back his old space station.

[h_hollister]

"Just don't kill anybody, okay? I'll never not-flirt with you again if I find out you've killed anybody. Kick 'em out, take it back, but don't kill 'em."

There. Moral obligations appeased, she readjusts her PINpoint so it's leaning against her computer, and then plugs it in. The tiny PIN screen is now jacked into her monitor, and he's easier to see. It's like the future is now!

"No, I didn't fight h-...wait. She's a telepath? Oh! And she told me that you put a tracking device in me, you son of a bitch!"

[virtupets]

"Hey, when you have your intergalactic revolution and hostile takeover, I wouldn't tell you how to do things." There's another finger pointing at her as he says this reproachfully.

"And..." He sighs wearily, also partially in what sounds like disgust. "Yeah, she's a telepath. Why? You sound weirdly interested in that fact." Lalala, maybe if you ignore the part about the tracking device, she'll forget about it, lalala...

[h_hollister]

Oh, not a chance.

"I was just wondering how she knew so much about me. And the fact that there's a tracking device in me. Seriously, Frank, that's just not right."

Although she doesn't sound too terribly pissed about it.

"And I'll tell you not to kill people if I want to. You're there, I'm here, you called me, you'll hear it. Nyer."

[virtupets]

"She knows so much about you because she's a mind-reading, nosy, intrusive little b-..." Oh, there's another kaboom, nicely omitting the rest of that word.

When the screen goes still once more, Sloth's sighing and scowling. "And it's just like her to go and tattle on me. What goes on between you and me is none of her damn business! And I'd like to know how she found out about the device. She couldn't have gotten that from reading your mind, since, you know, you didn't actually know it was there. So that means..." He growls and appears genuinely angry for a moment as he looks to the side in frustration.

Then he's facing the screen again, still seeming more than a little irritated. "So...what, you want me to take it back out now? It's no good now if you know about it."

[h_hollister]

"Eh, don't bother, I had my nanobots turn it into saline. A few bottles of water and it was flushed away." Haw haw, literally.

"Ooh, she read your mind, then, eh? Ooooh, she's in troooouble. Remind me to be well far away from Neopia when you two rumble, then. I hope she kicks your sorry ass."

Grin.

"Now! In answer to your original question! You were an adorable baby. Although your eating skills left a lot to be desired. I've never seen a baby with oatmeal up its nose before. Also, you had no legs, what was up with that?"

[virtupets]

"So once you were actively aware of the tracker, then you could send your little 'bots to dissolve it? Neat."

At the continued ribbing that it was his mind that had been read, his visibly grinds his teeth together, both hands visible on screen curling into fists. "...Yeah, there'll be a reckoning, don't worry about that. Oh, will there ever be."

But then she moves onto the subject of his babyhood, so Sloth forces himself to relax, clearing his throat and settling a little more into his chair once again.

"Eh, we don't develop legs or genders till a few years later. It's a certain evolutionary quirk. And it's not that weird. I've seen other lifeforms that do the same thing in their younger stages!"

[h_hollister]

His discomfiture makes her grin even bigger. It's always nice to see him feel awkward, upset and not in control. Of course, the fact that he's far away and very busy right now help her good mood. If this were happening in person, she'd be doing he best to run away.

"Yeah, like frogs. I said I was gonna call you Kermit from now on, I think I'm gonna have to stick to that."

[virtupets]

"I'll stick you with something." He sounds slightly distracted, though it's hard to say if it's the noises going on still behind him or his anger towards his arch-nemesis.

But he's back to looking at the screen after so long, clearing his throat again and smoothing out the front of his robes. "But anyways. I bet you never thought I'd make such an adorable baby, huh? Admit it, you adored me. It's okay to keep adoring me, by the by. Just in case you were wondering about that."